Whats the attraction with This Aint A Love Song????
 

Ok so another song everyones divided on.... This Aint A Love Song. So I decided to do a separate post, rather than discussing it through the tour section.

These Days is my fave song album by miles and I can appreciate all the songs on the album in their own way, I just don't see why people absolutely love this particular song. Alot of people I've spoken to prefer Always to it, myself I think Bed Of Roses is alot better than both.

This Aint A Love Song is a nice song, I wouldn't be blown away if they played it live, there are other songs I'd be blown away by and other songs for me have a wow factor.

And no its not because I'm not at the last shows of the tour.....

I'm the same tbh Yvonne. I like the song and would love to hear it live but there are others like STBI and WITW that I would rather hear for a second time than hear this song for the first time.

Each to their own though. :)

It's the song I hate most. I'm not a fan of power ballads and this one is the worst beside Stay. I can't stand the way Jon sings it. To me it just sounds like whining but not singing.

I can absolutely understand the hype over the song. For me it's one of the best Jovi songs ever written. Amazing guitar work, they really put some effort in doing the song you can tell! The lyrics are great too. Can't understand it's played so seldom. Amazing track!

No doubt it is a great song, but like the These Days album, I think it is overly loved on jovitalk.

It is one of the top 3 songs from the album though IMO.

I share your opinion, Yvonne. I can't understand the "This ain't a love song-hype". This song is just average. I don't need to hear it live and would prefer a lot of other songs. I don't like the melody.

Aloha !

This Ain't A Love Song is their last great power ballad, and it's a very good one. There's elements of blues, soul, pop and rock in it, and Jon blends all styles in there when he sings it. It's also one of their biggest hits of the nineties and was one of the summer hits of 1995, so obviously many people like it.

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Sebastiaan

It's a great song that is now hardly ever played and we have had to put up with the likes of lost highway and captain crash over it. I'm not saying it should be in every set list (although personally I couldn't complain if it was) but it should be played more often.

Everyone's each to their own. If there are people who don't like it they're entitled to have their own opinion.

It's an amazing song IMO. I think the hype comes from the fact that over this tour many of the "super-rarities" that people have clamored for during the 2000's (DC, TD, Alw, etc.) have started to become semi-regulars, so people are drifting to different mega-rare songs.

Agreed. And I like it because it has the most angst of the ballads, not overly syrupy, to me just rings more true. Lie To Me is my favorite song off of TD, STBI 2nd and this song 3rd.

It was my most wanted for this tour....didn't get it unfortunately.

It's partly a case of I have heard Bed Of Roses and Always numerous times. It's also partly because These Days is my favourite album.
But I think alot of it comes from the performance on the Live In London video. When I think of TAALS being performed I think of all that emotion, the whole mic stand being thrown to the ground....all that shebang. I know nowadays he doesn't really move from the mic stand and the security of his teleprompter thing, and I know it would be a massive anticlimax...but I still want it :P
Absence makes the heart grow fonder as they say. And it has been absent from all the gigs I have been to!

Just like the way Everyday was to capitalize off the success of IML, TAALS was to capitalize off the success of Always. However in America, the song did not do so well and I think Jon wrote it off b/c of that. At that time there was a rock movement so that song and entire album did not get a fair chance which sucks b/c Jon and the Band were at their prime in every category during that period. America missed out on the best part of Bon Jovi.....

As much as I hate to admit it, Seb nailed it down in the previous post. The song is brilliant but b/c it didn't do well in America, it doesn't get the live recognition that BOR and Always gets so when us fans do get a live performance, it's a nice treat.

I was watching Dancing With The Stars last season (not by choice) and someone covered it. Hearing someone else sing it really made me appreciate the song even more on a lyrical level. Sometimes you get so accustom to listening to a song in only one light, you overlook certain factors. Hearing someone else sing it really made me realize how great the song really is.

IMO, it is truly is one of the best ballads by this band.

Last proper power ballad with a bit of passion which builds up into a great love song. It was awesome live too, i'd take that at every show over Make a memory or Superman tonight.

attraction? absolutely none.

It's more subtle than a 'power ballad' imo.

But lyrically BOR is way better. TAALS also has that Child-all-over it whiff.

This is exactly why I like the song so much. It's not as kinky as Always and it's not trying as hard to be a power ballad as BOR. While it is their last power ballad, it is not a typical power ballad. It too complex for that.

For me, it's the same with Hey God and Keep the Faith. Hey God is more subtle. I guess it's why I love the TD record so much. It's on a totally different level in terms of depth, subtleness and musicianship compared to all other albums. It feels like, for once in their career, they were not possessed by the idea to write a hit song / hit album.

i like the way it builds and builds to the end... i love the guitar solo, i love the string instruments they used... how it fades out... i remember this video as one of the last BJ videos to really get played on MTV... i was lucky enough to see it live on the These Days tour.... great song!

That's a perfect way to describe it. And yes - These Days has always been my favorite - even though other albums actually got me into the band.

It's really a sad song but it's so beautiful... The styles combined, like Seb said, made the song for me. The guitar work is excellent and Jon at that time was flawless so to me it's a ballad but like a lot of you've said is more complex than that. I really love the song and to me it's the perfect closer for an epic show ;)

For me it is the best ballad. I agree with Seb!

The chord progression to the verses is completely original... especially for a Bon Jovi song (or pop/rock song for that matter). The lyrics to the verses aren't predictable either. And there is so much emotion.

I think Always is THE epic love song. No one will ever do it better than that. TAALS is just different... and good. It certainly helps that it is the one global hit that they don't play. If they went 15 years without playing Always, that would be the song everyone was talking about... or Bed of Roses.

I like it now, but I did not at first. I don't think the lyrics are anything phenomenal compared to some Jovi songs. I generally dislike songs that use the phrase "love song" in it, since there seems to be a lot.

However, the recent performances of it, especially from Lisbon, blew me away. The very last "then I'm wrong, YES I'M WRONG" - the passion in Jon's voice sent shivers up my spine.